Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
But, please, Stepan Stepanovitch, how can they be yours? Do be a reasonable man! My aunt’s grandmother gave the Meadows for the temporary and free use of your grandfather’s peasants. The peasants used the land for forty years and got accustomed to it as if it was their own, when it happened that.

1. Who speaks these words and to whom?
2. What do ‘they’ stand for?
3. Give the meaning of ‘accustomed’.

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